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So I ran into the dreaded 250 note limit but fortunately it is working fine now. I guess I can take pride in the fact that I use Evernote so much but a warning would be nice. I'm trying to back up my entire Evernote database via the desktop client, but when I go to explorer it shows that the enex file is only 1kb. That doesn't make sense. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

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So I discovered what I was doing wrong. Looks like I have to select all of my notes and then I can export that way. I thought that Evernote would know just to back up everything without me having to select. Goofy extra step really. Does it back up my stacks and notebooks? It backup tags but doesn't have anything under options for notebooks. Another good reason to use the tag system.

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The other way of backing up is to export you complete Evernote folder.

In Windows go Tools, Options, select the General tab and click on Open Database folder.

From the address bar at the top, select the name of the folder before Evernote. You will now see a list of folders, among which will be Evernote. Copy this to an external device. It will then be your complete database including Notebooks, tags etc.

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The other way of backing up is to export you complete Evernote folder.

In Windows go Tools, Options, select the General tab and click on Open Database folder.

From the address bar at the top, select the name of the folder before Evernote. You will now see a list of folders, among which will be Evernote. Copy this to an external device. It will then be your complete database including Notebooks, tags etc.

This is a complete backup, but give some thought as to how you would use this.
Evernote is a cloud application with the master version of your data on the Evernote servers.
You can't simply restore your local copy of the database.

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This is a complete backup, but give some thought as to how you would use this.
Evernote is a cloud application with the master version of your data on the Evernote servers.
You can't simply restore your local copy of the database.

Hi,

Have done this many times, so not sure what you mean?

It is a very easy way of getting all your data back in the correct order and exactly how you want it on your computer.

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It is a very easy way of getting all your data back in the correct order and exactly how you want it on your computer.

For me, the easiest way to rebuild my database is to recreate it from the Evernote servers.
This also ensures I'm in sync with the other copies of my database

I do maintain backups in case I lose some note data; for example if I delete part of an important note.
I would go to my backups, locate the specific note/version and restore from there; just the note, not the entire database

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For me, the easiest way to rebuild my database is to recreate it from the Evernote servers.
This also ensures I'm in sync with the other copies of my database

I do maintain backups in case I lose some note data; for example if I delete part of an important note.
I would go to my backups, locate the specific note/version and restore from there; just the note, not the entire database

Hi again,

The problem is when you have 'lost' data. This will be lost in the Evernote servers as well.

The way I back up using the whole database, allows you to restore any Note or Notebook.

You restore onto a computer that is not online and retrieve your data. You can then import back into an online computer. Simples!

Got to say, it is rare and normally I would rely on the Evernote servers. But if you don't keep on top of your data, you only have yourself to blame.